Road bumps, bad gardening and lovely crochet

Yes finally after months and months the road works are complete and humps are in, much to the horror of those who like to speed on through this tiny street. Before they painted the humps, there were plenty who it the first one, way to fast, despite the 20klm sign. Now they are painted, our street is safe for the few little people who live here and much quieter. 

Thought I would zoom in on the sign up the road, from our front garden. 

And this is what happens when you go away often. Would you believe this is parsley with the lavender!! I may need to attack it with hedge trimmer......

Another shot, different angle and you can see parsley has also got in amongst the rhubarb which has also gone crazy. 

The strawberries are coming along nicely too, although much weeding needing to be done. Raining today, so there is another day of not lol.  

But I have been doing a bit of crochet. This is going to be a matching scarf/cowl for mum for xmas to go with these really neat fingerless mitts. 

A wonderful easy pattern, quick to make even if you are slow like me, thank you to the wonderful Sharon over at laughingpurplegoldfish and being tested right now and available FREE through ravelry link in December. 

Obviously me wearing one to show how neat they are. I used stylecraft dk wondersoft Merrygoround and it is acrylic but incredibly SOFT. Mum will love these but must not let her see here as surprise for xmas. She loves the fingerless mittens that I have made so will be real happy with a new pair.

Hope you are keeping warm/cool where ever you are, it has been hot here but today raining and dark, typical Aussie weather for gippsland. take care ☺☺

Quiet weekend ☺☺

How is the weather where you are?  Spring is here with only 2 nice days so far and the rain is back lol

But at least I finally got that mowing done, hate it when it gets too long......

                      I did also have a lovely road trip down to catch with a couple of crochet
                        and knit buddies who I got to know through http://www.ravelry.com/
                              Certainly worth the almost 4hr road trip, lovely people they are ☺

But of course I get to warm up while still working on this, need to get a move on so I actually have more to show on Tuesday!!

Also working on this, testing a pattern for the lovely Laughing purple another Ozzie who makes lots of interesting things.

Yep, the road is still not completed!! Awaiting final seal and 2 speed humps. Reckon those who like to short cut through our little street will get a lovely surprise lol.

Will leave you with this fun pick from a blog ba-gawks and she has lots of little hats for her chickens ☺☺ cute eh? and they seem quite happy about it.

Hope your weekend is going good. Daylight saving kicked in here today (clock forward 1hr) and the man on night shift so he currently sleeping.

take care xoxo

At home

Yep, back home for now..... I missed seeing these guys till now and looking a little jaded but still beautiful. This one is the best of a group of 6 in the front garden, with the ever growing Bay tree in the background.

On the weekend the road guys are not here so nice and quiet and we now have new drainage to stop the little creek/river that often developed with the deluge of rain we get here.

See, no mowing on this nature strip for a while lol. Now they are going to dig up road and then reseal with a speed hump or 2, possibly this coming week.

The Aloe Vera plant my lovely daughter gave to me from her garden is thriving. She no longer lives at the same address so perhaps I can now share with her at her new place.

More from Sarah, lovely succulents. This is a very damp spot in our back yard and they obviously love it here.

The Rosemary is happy flowering and in person is very bright purple, but does not show in this shot.

The beginning of the Daffodils in the back yard along the vegie garden which has more weeds than vegies. Really must get on to that weeding.

Lemon tree is going crazy, and has heaps of little green ones developing.

The backyard view from the fence towards the house.

The moon last night, which looks full but is a day or 2 past the real full moon.

And the beginning of a little crochet project which I am testing for a clever lady ☺☺

Home to catch up with family and then another trip planned with the van in another week or so.

Hope your weekend is a special one.

Heading off to Lakes Entrance

Oh yeah, the roadworks now like parking in our drive lol

Luckily they left before my visitor arrived on thursday.

Yes my sister J came to visit for the night, she HATES having her pic taken so this is the only one I took and she may be a little angry when she sees herself here lol, love you J xo.

So today we got ready to leave for our one week trip and I will say I am not going to miss this.

Or this at all.

And the car all packed ready to go to wiki/Lakes_Entrance,_Victoria

This time taking our mountain bikes, not that we go mountain riding, just like a sturdy bike. We have not ridden for at least 2years so wish us luck......

Not a great pic, but this is my new camera, it was quite cheap as factory refurbished and I really just want to see how I go with a bigger zoomy camera.  My older one is fujifinepix a820 and being replaced by fuji finepix s3280 with 24x zoom, so hope it goes okay, but have both with me.

Off we go, yay, the flowers are always happy to be out ☺

Only a 2hr trip for us to Lakes Entrance so an easy drive.

Here we are staying at the Lakes Riviera beach resort, very close to the beach and walking distance to everything.

The Lounge/dining area.

Kitchen with even a dishwasher.

Convection microwave in the cupboard, have plans for some good old cooking to happen in it for sure. 

The bathroom, with a Loo next door.

The main bedroom.

Spare/guest room, no one joining us this time though.

The laundry complete with machine and dryer.

And yes our bikes out under the clothes line. Went for a quick ride up the street to check out where everything was as had not been here for about 2yrs I think.  Came back and then headed out for tea as there was Steak night on at the sports club, forgot my camera duhhhh so no pics. 

Well hope everyone in happy ready for the weekend. I will be back with more pics and of course crochet too ☺☺♥

Hope you enjoyed the little tour around.

Another stripe blanket and those road works

Just a short post today as being at home have not done a lot of exciting things and those roadworks are continuing in our street. Going to be for roughly 2 months, great........

They have dug up our side of the street to replace the curbing whilst sinking some large pipes to improve the drainage. 

New curbing has now been done and we had to get our cars out and could not bring them back into the carport for 2days, so we parked at the RSL near us. 

Our driveway and plenty of holes still needing to be filled and the rest of our side of the street to get its curbing possibly next week. 

Do you know how much noise one of these diggers make as it is going up and down the street with a constant beep, beep, beep, beep......... Not easy for Paul to sleep whilst on nightshift. They are going to replace the driveway and seal the whole road, so will have to get cars out for quite a few more days in the coming month or 2, think we should go away eh??

And to make my days a bit nicer I have started another Granny Stripe blanket and can see details on my ravelry projetct page here granny-stripes .  I am using Stylecraft special dk bought from deramores it is amazing soft for an acrylic and great price and quick delivery.

Now on my second repeat of the stripes, very bright, wonder how long it will take me to finish as I really do so much time wasting by looking at patterns and very little actual doing lol.

Hopefully I will get on with more before next post, although I am also doing another pair of socks, cant stop making more, and of course I wear them and love them. Hope your weekend is warm and fun ☺☺♥♥